February 2023 Law Faculty Publications & News

Publications

  • Prof. Brian D. Shannon, Ethical Challenges in Texas Criminal Proceedings Involving Defendants with Mental Illness, 55 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1 (2022).
  • Prof. Jarod S. Gonzalez, Solving Fair Labor Standards Act Collective Action Law, 58 Tulsa L. Rev. (2022).
  • Prof. Geoffrey S. Corn, Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict, Oxford University Press (2023).

Citations

  • Prof. Richard W. Murphy’s article The DIY Unitary Executive was cited in the following article: Aaron L. Nelson & Christopher J. Walker, Congress’s Anti-Removal Power, 76 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1 (2023).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article Tax Exceptionalism Lives? was cited in the following publication: Christine Speidel & Patrick W. Thomas, Effectively Representing Client Before New IRS, 8 American Bar Association (2021).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp’s article The Mysteries of Erroneous Refunds was cited in the following publication: Christine Speidel & Patrick W. Thomas, Effectively Representing Client Before New IRS, 8 American Bar Association (2021).
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton’s article Planetary Protection and Regulating Human Health: A Risk that is Not Zero was cited in the following article: Kane Yutaka Tenorio, Don’t Mind the Gap: Practical and Ethical Consequences of Domestic Planetary Protection Regulations, 35 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1151 (2022).
  • Prof. Brian D. Shannon’s article The Time is Right to Revise the Texas Insanity Defense: An Essay was cited in the following article: Carline Vidal, The Next Step for Social Justice: Amending the Insanity Defense, 26 Quinnipiac Health L.J. 219 (2023).
  • Prof. Gerry W. Beyer’s article pay to the Order of Whom?—The Case of the Ambiguous Multiple Payee Designation was cited in the following publication: UCC With Illinois Code Comments, Ill. Prac. Series (2023).
  • Prof. Richard W. Murphy’s article Arbitrariness Review Made Reasonable: Structural and Conceptual Reform of the “Hard Look” was cited in the following article: Dorothy S. Lund, Asset Managers as Regulators, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 77 (2022).
  • Prof. Catherine M. Christopher’s article Eye of the Beholder: How Perception Management Can Counter Stereotype Threat Among Struggling Law Students was cited in the following article: Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., The Secret Sauce: Examining Law Schools that Overperform on the Bar Exam, 75 Fla. L. Rev. 65 (2023).
  • Prof. John Watts’ article To Tell the Truth: A Qui Tam Action for Perjury in a Civil Proceeding is Necessary to Protect the Integrity of the Judicial System was cited in the following article: Nat Stern, Rethinking Absolute Immunity from Defamation Suits in Private Quasi-Judicial Proceedings, 21 U.N.H. L. Rev. 117 (2022).

Quotations

  • Prof. DeLeith Gossett was quoted in the following article: Eve Brank, Editor’s Note, 58 Court Rev. 1 (2022).
  • Prof. Bryan T. Camp was quoted in the following publication: Steven H. Sholk, A Guide to the Substantiation Rules for Deductible Charitable Contributions, 137 J. Tax’n 3 (2022).

Notes

  • On February 1, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a guest speaker at the Judicial Orientation for New County Judges conference in Lubbock, Texas sponsored by the Texas Association of Counties. His presentation was entitled Probate Overview.
  • On February 6, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker at a virtual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Estate and Probate Section. His presentation to approximately 200 Connecticut attorneys focused on the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Prof. Beyer was appointed by the Uniform Law Commission as the Reporter for this Act.
  • On February 6, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker at a virtual meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Estate and Probate Section. His presentation to approximately 200 Connecticut attorneys focused on the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act. Prof. Beyer was appointed by the Uniform Law Commission as the Reporter for this Act.
  • In February 2023, the Texas Tech Law Review published Horn Distinguished Professor Brian Shannon’s article, Ethical Challenges in Texas Criminal Proceedings Involving Defendants with Mental Illness, 55 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1-32 (2022) (actual publication in Feb. 2023). The article is an expansion on Shannon’s presentation at the April 2022 Texas Tech Law Review Mental Health Law Symposium.
  • On February 1, 2023, Horn Distinguished Professor Brian Shannon presented an overview of Texas Mental Health Proceedings at the Texas Association of Counties’ Judicial Orientation for New County Judges in Lubbock (during a sleet storm).
  • Prof. DeLeith Gossett was named as a 2023 Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching and Research Award winner.
  • On February 17, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the featured speaker at the virtual February meeting of the Estate Planning Council of Central New Jersey. His presentation focused on estate planning for cyber property such as electronic communications, cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens, and Metaverse assets.
  • Prof. Amy Hardberger spoke at The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice 2023 Annual Symposium
  • On February 16, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the South Plains Trust and Estate Council in Lubbock, Texas. His presentation was entitled Is There Virtual Life After Death? Dealing with Cryptocurrency, Non-fungible Tokens, Electronic Communications, and the Metaverse in the Context of Estate Planning.
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton’s documentary, “Can Archaeology Repair its Past with Indigenous America?” won the Best Documentary, Sigma Xi Honor Society, Art & Film Festival, Nov. 2022.
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton won Best Documentary, Austin New Filmmakers Festival, 2023.
  • Prof. Victoria Sutton also won Human Rights Award, Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival (Mexico) for her documentary.
  • Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a guest on a podcast: Digital Planning Podcast Episode: The Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act
  • On February 24, 2023, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer presented his paper entitled Case Law Update: Intestacy, Wills, Probate, and Trusts for the 15th Annual Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal Seminar held at Tech Law.

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